[Foundation-l] GFDL Q&A update and question

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sat Jan 10 09:02:11 UTC 2009


Thomas Dalton wrote:
> I disagree, I don't think each edit is a work but rather each revision
> is a work, derived from the revision before. The question is then who
> is the Original Author of the latest revision, is it just the person
> that made the last edit or is it everyone before (ie. are authors of a
> work automatically authors of a work derived from it)?
One might even regard many articles as having a homeopathic nature.  
Someone starts the article, and over time and many successive edits that 
person's contribution becomes diluted until it vanishes. There's often 
nothing of left of it to copyright.

Ec



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